Show tui tur CALLIOPE OR MUSICAL tle several years vears ago says the tile boston trav ler ier thien mr arr J 0 stoddard a mechanic of worcester conceived the idea that the bells beffi by the vibration of whose thin edges the steam whis itle lle is produced could le be so arranged as to rend render r life file accurately c cur cura tely atly 4 the tha diatonic scale in irl music and anda a tien tier r experiment exper experimenting imen tin g for some time be he succeeded in constructing a selles sei set ies les of bellson bellson which the seven notes of the octave could be played by steam the desideratum was now to 0 o produce a valve sufficient sufficiently iv delicate delicato to correspond with the ine touch of the performer pe reformer on the keyboard key board of an all organ this has finally been effected efi ecter and the he inventor has taken out a patent not only for the application of steam to jo a series of musical bell bells but also for a new delicate valve for the tile admission of steam abeam into bells the calliope hen then as now exhibited consists of a long series of bells varying in size and length betig th according accordia to the tone to be produced and running through four or five octaves the steam is admitted to those bells by means ofa ofa long ceries berles of corresponding tubes lubes inserted in a small cylinder connected with the he boiler boller A wire connects lle lie the valve in each tube with a key i c e a finger board like hat that of a pianoforte piano forte oi or organ this in a steamboat steam boat may be placed in the lie lle ladies cabin while the hie bells themselves are in in a distant part cart of the boat A full chord of ell eil eight notes rotes may be struck at once once pas ing as upon n the organ and 2nd it ignee iless to say that the he effect of such a combination n of musical tone tons is remarkably remal kably grand sublime 1 think of a steamer with one of these mighty musician s on board bow plowing its way up the mississippi and waking those vast solitudes with its trumpet breathings brea things on the tile ocean the calliope can be heard for twenty miles discoursing the star span spangled led banner and hail Colum columbian blay bial with accuro accuracy cy the action of the valves is so nice and anti perfect ahat the q sickest tunes as dfisher fishery A hornpipe Money musky ll 11 and mary A larys s wedding can bo be performed with ease and all the accompanying parts distinctly given the glencove Glen GIen cove between new york and albany has one of these instruments on board and it is is said the boat has doubled here heri number of passengers it the calliope is capable of being played with a cranic as a common hand organ and in this form will doubtless take the place of thie the shrill steam whistle on the railroad but the greater grealer utility will be it seems to us as a signal t between ngn len nen om oun our steamship earn ship on the ocean and as a diver sion glon sion slon to the passengers on their voyages the consumption of steam by it is said to be quite inconsiderable c |